Asking for permission changes the coordination speed by an order of magnitude.
- Asking for permission changes the coordination speed by an order of magnitude.
- A permission check is a sync point.
- You need to wait for the counterparty to unblock you.
- Sync points expand the coordination cost super-linearly.
- That's one of the reasons with agent swarms, dangerously-skip-permissions is so freeing.
- It's also freeing in human organizations, with "Ask forgiveness, not permission."
- You trade off execution velocity for safety.
- Sometimes that tradeoff is worth it.